How can I recover my iTunes files to my new macbook pro?

DESPERATE:I had over 400 music iTunes purchased music files on my iMac G5 PowerPC which died. No problem, I thought, "I'll just restore from my external hard drive that I have been backing up too periodically" - apparently it's also dead - will not mount at all to my MacBook Pro (it's a Lacie). So I paid $130.00 this week to have a computer repair shop take the hard drive out of the old dead iMac and put it in an enclosure so I could do a data transfer from it to my MacBook Pro.
Wasted money. There is NOTHING showing in my user "Music" or "Photos" folders on the old hard drive...so now what are my options? Is there ANY way to get back the hundreds of $$ I've spent buying music from iTunes for past 6 years?? geez...

Here's your best solution for everything except movies. 
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519

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